Burner attachment.



Patent-ed Dec. 28, 1915.

COLUMBIA PLANODRAPII C0.,WASHINGTON, D,|

ERWIN MAURER, 0F JAMAICA, NEW YORK.

BURNER ATTACHMENT.

Application filed May 8, 1915.

Y b all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERWIN MA'URER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jamaica, Long Island, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Burner Attachments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to vapor or gas burners, and has for its object to provide improved means for converting a heater burner into an illuminating burner.

The invention contemplates the connec tion of any known type of illuminating mantle supporting attachment to a known type of heater burner by an improved coupling or connector which may be substituted for the detachable spreader of the burner and is adapted to conduct or carry the gas or vapor mixed in the burner to the mantle supporting attachment. This coupling or connector is especially designed for use on the type of heater burner with which the radius wickless kerosene stove is equipped, but may also be successfully used with other forms of heater burners in which fuel is mixed with air to form the proper vapor for burning.

The invention will be first hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, which constitute a part of this specification, and then more particularly defined in the claims at the end of the description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views- Figure 1 is a sectional view of the improved coupling connecting a burner of the type above mentioned with a support for an inverted mantle, the support and mantle being shown in elevation and the burner partly in section and partly in elevation, and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the coupling tube, showing the supporting plate for the coupling in plan.

As the particular kind of burner does not constitute any part of the present invention, a general view of the burner preferred, namely that used on the radius stove, is considered suflicient by way of illustration. In Fig. 1, this burner is indicated at 1, the gas or Vapor delivery pipe being designated Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 28, 1915. Serial No. 26,884.

1 and the usual vessel supporting frame shown at 2 in section.

My improved coupling device consists of a horizontal plate or disk 3 having radial slots 4 cut in its periphery to fit over the grid 2 of the frame 2, and a centrally arranged tube 5 having its upper end tapered and provided with a restricted opening 6. On the under face of the plate 3 there is an inclosure 7 adapted to fit around the upper end of the gas supply pipe 1 of the burner when the plate 3 is seated upon the support 2. Said inclosure 7 is provided with numerous perforations 8 which serve the same purpose as the perforations in the usual spreader used on this type of burner and which is removed when my attachment is to be used. By reason of the restricted opening 6 at the top of the tube 5, only part of the gas will be permitted to pass to the bent or curved tube 10 comprising part of the holder 11 for the mantle 12. The remainder of the gas will be forced back and through the perforations 8 to keep the pipes hot and aid the vaporization of the fuel as the vapor is consumed.

The curved tube 10 is provided with a collar 9 on its lower end to removably fit over the tapered end of the coupling tube 5, as illustrated in Fig. 1. By means of this coupling, the heater burner may be quickly converted into an illuminating burner, an excellent light being produced by the mantle 12. When it is desired to use the burner again for heating purposes, the coupling may be quickly removed and the spreader which was taken off when the coupling was attached, put in place on the gas supply tube 1*.

aving thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is coupling for converting a vapor heater burner into an illuminating burner, comprising a supporting disk, a tube arranged centrally of said disk and adapted to support a mantle carrying tube on its upper end, and a perforated inclosure de pending from the disk and adapted to fit around the gas supply pipe of a heater burner.

2. A coupling of the character described comprising a tube having a restricted opening inits upper end, supporting means at 10 prising a disk having radial slots in its periphery to fit over the grid of the supporting frame, a tube extending upward from the disk for attachment with a mantle holder, and aperforated inclosure depending from the disk in line with the tube for fitting around the gas supply pipe of the burner.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ERWVIN MAURER.

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- Washington, D. C. 

